Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Olympic curling: elaborate sweeping operation to tweak the path of the thrown rock, constant screaming, plus an earth-shaking controversy about tapping the rocks post-release to influence direction
Paralympic curling: just huckin it down there, don't see what the big deal is, works just fine
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FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city
Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
"Requests for slow zones have already passed the transportation committees of Manhattan CB2 and CB5, Queens CB6 and Brooklyn CB6."
We absolutely want a district-wide speed limit of 20 mph on all applicable roads and even slower speeds on what should be a growing network of shared streets.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
Annnnd... now the title of the center (Center for Human-driven AI Research and Methods at Harvard) has been changed to... "Human of life aorknice"
Now I've got it! It'll be a robot helping scaffold someone through a pistol squat, a really hard exercise, so that eventually they can do it on their own! Do that!
And... womp womp. I guess I'm the co-founder of the "Human of life aorknice" now.
Now the robot is helping someone (who now looks happier) who is almost but not quite in a pistol squat position.
Certainly food for thought but I need to re-introduce the concept of technology. Let's turn that nurse into a robot because it's analogous to a computer helping humans get better at hard mental tasks (which we do). And the human should look like they're starting from 'fine', not injured.
Now the title is off to the side and a nurse of some therapeutic kind is helping someone get up and maybe their leg is not quite working right yet?
We're interested in AI that supports humans becoming better themselves. I gave it a pretty abstract prompt to see what it would do. It associated "getting better" with recovery from an injury and therefore a PT nurse of some kind. Not... terrible, I guess, but not at all what I was thinking about.
Same slide, without hand
But why is the hand touching the brain? What does that have to do with AI?
I didn't even know if it would have the context of the prior prompt but when I simply said, "Remove the hand", it certainly did. Very nice...
A slide the successfully reflects the Center's name and home institution, with a brain and a hand touching or grabbing the brain.
Super funny AI incident today: I let myself try the genAI assistance with some rough draft slides I need quickly. It starts off fine, I guess...
This ICE detention center is the largest in the country and has become notorious for rampant physical abuse, medical neglect, and death.
We won't let up the pressure until it's shut down for good.
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign
I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.
The USDA is selling its flagship South Building office hub on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and relocating employees to other locations across the country by the end of the year. The admin has been fixated on gutting federal agencies from DC real estate since trump 1.0.
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This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America
or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports
To put more money in the pockets of his cronies while fixing, absolutely, nothing
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
BREAKING: We're calling on the U.N. to investigate the Trump administration's violations of human rights in Minnesota.
The U.S. government must be held accountable for blatantly defying international law as ICE ignores the freedoms our country is obligated to uphold.
